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groceries

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹɪz//
  • United States//ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz//

Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.

noun

  1. 1

    Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.

    She carried a sack of groceries in from her car and placed it on the kitchen table.

    Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of groceryplural of grocery (store)

    There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither of them had tasty food.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of grocerythird-person singular simple present indicative of grocery

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).